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EU Court Says Google Links Can Be Removed

5/13/2014 10:22AM

Google will have to uphold certain requests to take down links to news articles, court judgments and other documents in search results, according to a surprise decision in the European Court of Justice. Lisa Fleisher explains what this means.

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I ... here being anti square table that people can request a cool cool remove certain search results ... because ... I see constraints of basically ... they said that if you have ever sold the shares up on Google whether it's a link to a newspaper court ... documents ... I you can ask that people take that down even if it's ... true even if there's nothing actually deeply Bromley fit that ... bill can show that many in its search results ... when the concerns here that Google and other search engines will have ... will be that their search results will be considered complete ... so if you pop the future chairman to Google ... and Spain for example ... you might find different search results then you might find in the country the response from Sur Thames and so far has been a bit muted Google has said it's obviously disappointed in the ruling we haven't heard yet from my purse up which runs a search engine Bing ... um ... but search engine providers are probably taken a little bit by surprise that this because the court ruled in opposition to ... an opinion laid out by the EU advocates acknowledge generally day three in most cases ... the advocate General has said that search engines don't need to necessarily imply a late ... request to remove information from search results ... one other search engines can appeal this particular willing better means be seen how low actually take Bechtel actually touch airlines because ... the lower courts now in different ... countries and different nations that make up the European Union ... I've to go back in to figure out what this means to them what this means to their country ... the interesting thing here is that the search results themselves the links these newspapers newspaper articles productions ... they might all be actually cracked what the European games protests that is that Google is creating a new record essentially a new piece information ... I act again by indexing all these different results ... and putting them in one place for you ... so that's what the European Union Court has said that it can tell Global to take ... certain search results and ...